Moving your stock across, without a leap of faith
The real question is not whether the software is good. It is whether you can get out of what you are using now, and what happens to the count if the import goes wrong.
Export, map, preview, commit
The preview is the part that matters. Nothing enters your stock on the strength of a file nobody has looked at.
- 01Export what you haveA spreadsheet out of your current system.
- 02Split by typeParts, accessories and devices are three imports.
- 03Add referencesOne IMEI, serial or shop reference per device unit.
- 04PreviewSee exactly what the import would do before it runs.
- 05Read the warningsErrors and oddities are listed separately.
- 06CommitYou choose whether existing stock is updated.
Most of the work is the first two steps, and most of the risk is removed by the fourth. A shop moving over usually spends longer tidying its own spreadsheet than running the import.
What the import actually does
The same ten rules published on the inventory page: one list, so the two cannot disagree.
- Three separate imports
- Parts, accessories and devices come in as three separate imports, because they are three different kinds of thing with three different shapes.
- Quantity for parts, references for devices
- Parts and accessories are imported with a quantity. Device quantity is derived from the unit references you supply, not entered as a number.
- One unit per reference
- Each device unit corresponds to one IMEI, serial number or shop reference. Two units cannot share one reference.
- The reference can be partial
- A full IMEI, a serial number, the last four or five digits, or an internal shop reference are all accepted, stored as free text, with no format or checksum rule to fight.
- Prices in pounds
- Costs and selling prices are entered in pounds, the way they appear on your supplier's invoice.
- Suppliers by ID
- A supplier is selected by its supplier ID, so the same name spelled three ways does not become three suppliers.
- Preview before commit
- You see what the import will do before anything is written. Nothing lands in your stock on the strength of a file you have not looked at.
- Warnings and errors are separate
- Rows that cannot be imported and rows that merely look odd are shown apart, so a genuine problem is not buried among things that are simply unusual.
- Update mode is explicit
- Whether the import updates existing stock is a choice you make deliberately, not a default that quietly overwrites what is already there.
- No barcode required
- The approved import format does not require a barcode, so a spreadsheet from an older system is enough to get started.
How shops move over without a gap
Stock first, checked against the shelf, while your old system finishes what it started.
- Preview before anything is written
- Every import shows exactly what it will create, with errors and warnings listed separately, before a single record is saved. The preview is the decision point: check it, then commit.
- Start small, then do the rest
- Nothing forces you to bring everything over at once. Importing one category, checking it against the shelf and then continuing is slower on paper and faster in practice.
- Finish open jobs where they started
- Part-finished repairs run to completion on your old system while new work starts in SlickCell, so nothing is moved halfway through a repair.
- A clean set of books from day one
- Your trading history stays in the system that produced it, where your accountant keeps working from it for the closed period, and SlickCell starts clean from your go-live day.
- Every unit enters stock as itself
- If an export has the same IMEI, serial or shop reference on two rows, the preview flags it, so each device arrives as one unit with one reference.
- Prices read as pounds
- Costs and selling prices import as pounds. A cell holding text, a stray symbol or a blank is listed for you to fix rather than guessed at.
Bring your export to a demo call and we will walk through exactly how it maps before you buy anything.
Or leave us a number and we will move it for you
None of the above has to be your job. Tell us what you are running now, and the moving is ours.
- We call you first
- A short call about what you run now, what is actually in it, and what is worth bringing over. You do not need a file in front of you to have it.
- You send what you can get out
- Whatever your current system will give you. If getting it out is the hard part, that is the part we help with rather than the part we wait on.
- We bring it in and read the warnings
- We run it, work through what the preview flags, and check the result against what you told us is on the shelf. You are not the one reading the error list.
- You get it back ready to trade on
- Stock, suppliers and device units in place, so the first thing you do in it is serve a customer rather than type. We walk you through what came across and what did not.
- No migration fee
- There is no setup charge and no separate migration cost on any plan. Moving your stock across is part of the subscription rather than an extra.
Your trading history stays where it is. We move the stock you sell from, not the books your accountant has already closed.
What shops ask before switching
Straight answers about the switch.
Yes. Leave your number on this page and we will call, take whatever your current system gives you, bring it in, work through the warnings and hand the shop back with its stock, suppliers and device units in place. There is no charge for it on any plan. What we will not do is guess how long your file needs before we have seen it.
Yes. Parts, accessories and devices import separately, prices are entered in pounds and suppliers are selected by supplier ID. A device reference can be a full IMEI, a serial number, the last few digits or your own shop reference, and you preview what the import will do before anything is written.
The preview catches them first. You see exactly what would be written, with errors and warnings listed separately, before anything is saved. Import one category, check it against the shelf, then bring over the rest.
No. A full IMEI, a serial number, the last four or five digits or your own internal shop reference are all accepted, stored as free text. There is no format or checksum rule to satisfy, so a partial reference from an older system is fine.
Finish part-finished repairs on your old system and keep its invoices there for your accountant's closed period. Your stock comes across, new repairs start in SlickCell from go-live, and the two never overlap.
Most of the effort is exporting and tidying your own data rather than running the import. We would rather look at your actual file and tell you than quote an average that turns out not to describe your shop.
Yes. Every plan has a fourteen-day trial, and nothing requires you to import your whole shop on day one. Bringing one category across and checking it is the sensible way in.
Moving over does not have to be your job
There is no setup charge and no separate migration cost on any plan. Leave us a number, tell us what you are on now, and we will bring your stock across and hand it back ready to trade on.
Leave us your number
We will call, take whatever your current system gives us, bring it in and hand the shop back ready to trade on. No charge, on any plan.